The BBC is playing a very dangerous game in Calais

WHAT does the BBC think it is doing in filming Songs Of Praise at the Calais migrant camp?

PUBLISHED: 08:51, Sat, Aug 8, 2015
| UPDATED: 09:01, Sat, Aug 8, 2015

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The migrant situation in Calais is becoming increasingly out of control

The implication behind this absurd posturing is clear: that these are desperate people who deserve an entry into the UK and only the hatchet-faced Conservatives are holding them back.

But it is not a view shared by anyone with an iota of common sense. The vast majority of Britons are sick to the back teeth of the incessant waves of immigration into this country and are absolutely appalled at the situation in Calais. The French have allowed matters to get totally out of control and now even the UN is telling them to sort the problem out.

The vast majority of Britons are sick to the back teeth of the incessant waves of immigration into this country and are absolutely appalled at the situation in Calais

But in the world of the politically correct BBC, these would-be illegal immigrants are some kind of martyrs deserving of support. What a sick joke.

The BBC has never reflected the views of the rest of the country on immigration, stamping down debate and labelling as "racist" anyone who dared to query the wisdom of letting untold millions in. But this is going one step further, a deliberately provocative act which is quite clearly an entry into the political debate.

It should not need spelling out that the BBC is supposed to be impartial, although for decades it has been anything but. This is also a time when the future of the BBC is coming under increasing scrutiny and until now it had at least the loyalty of a majority of the public to rely on.

Well, it is that same public's licence fee that the BBC is throwing away. It may come, fairly quickly, to regret this stunt.

JUST days after one police force suggested that it should investigate burglaries only at even-numbered houses, a senior police officer is now saying that burglary victims should send evidence to the police via the internet. At this rate we might as well not have a police force any more.

What this country is crying out for is bobbies on the beat, visible reassurance that they are keeping the world safe for us. Instead, they are refusing to investigate real crime and, as happened this week, spending their energies on harassing 13-year-old boys out to do a summer job.